Question: How many different species do you think there are in space and in our universe alone?Do you also think we are looking in the wrong places because we think our habitat is the only way to live and we are not looking the fact that they could be different?

Leo Beacroft answered on 12 Jun 2018:

Good question Georgia, I think different scientists will give you different opinions. I’m not an expert in this area but I’ll give you my thoughts.

The universe is huge, mind-bogglingly huge and there are more stars and planets than there are grains of sand on a beach. If the universe is so big then surely there must be life and probably intelligent life somewhere else right? But here’s the confusing bit, we haven’t seen any signs of intelligent life. Maybe you’re right and we haven’t looked it the right places, maybe we’re looking for signals of alien communication but we’re missing it because the way in which aliens communicate is totally different to how we communicate.

Sorry Georgia I don’t really know the answer for the rest of space, but at least there are millions of different species on earth 🙂